"

Glen Courtright says he has a more palatable solution. His startup, EnviroFlight, is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to sell livestock feed made from insects. “We can produce 225 pounds of clean, safe feed ingredients for aquaculture, poultry, and crustacea—that’s the holy trinity of fish, shrimp, and chicken—in a 3-foot-by-5-foot space,” he says.

 "

with Afton Halloran !!! VIDEO 

"Glen Courtright, a systems engineer and entrepreneur, is betting on the bugs. The Yellow Springs (Ohio)-based company he founded, EnviroFlight, has pioneered over the past three years a new bio-conversion facility powered by millions of mating black soldier flies and tens of millions of their wriggly offspring. The business is in the larvae."

The European Union hopes to allow processed animal proteins (PAPs) back into pig and poultry feed within the next two years, a top EU official said yesterday.

Speaking at Agra Informa’s World Poultry 2013 conference in Brussels, Koen van Dyck, head of unit for DG Health and Consumers (DG SANCO), said lifting the ban could help boost the competitiveness of European poultry producers and create a more level playing field with rival suppliers.

FINALY !!!! YES YES YES

“We are taking an unwanted by-product of livestock processing that has a negative value and creating a higher and better use for it through black soldier flies by creating two value-added products: compost and supplemental feed,” said farm owner Will Harris. “And we are creating these products using a resource that is already available to us and without using any energy.”

The black soldier fly, native to North America, exhibits characteristics that would be considered beneficial in agriculture. The adult fly does not bite, nor is it known to carry any diseases. In addition, the larvae (also known as meal worms) are scavengers, thriving on several kinds of decaying matter such as carrion, manure, plant refuse and waste products. With a dry weight protein content of roughly 42 percent and a fat content of about 34 percent, the larvae also make ideal inexpensive feed for chickens."

"Representantes de la Organización de Naciones Unidas y líderes de los países occidentales están seriamente preocupados por el futuro de la alimentación debido al aumento de la población mundial y los cambios ambientales. No en vano, los científicos sostienen que deberíamos empezar a valorar más a los insectos como sustento alimenticio.

Muchos alimentos, especialmente la carne, podría convertirse en un manjar demasiado caro para el bolsillo en los próximos años. Así que los científicos están buscando un alimento sustituto más barato que la carne. 

Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/50379-Ganado-de-seis-patas-crisis-podr%C3%ADa-sustituir-carne-por-insectos"